Pauline Prochazka

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Pauline Harriet Prochazka [1]
Baroness
Born1842
Prague
Died1930
Kilkenny

Pauline Prochazka (1842–1930) was a water-colourist and one of the founders of the Water Colour Society of Ireland.

Life

Baroness Pauline Prochazka was the daughter of Ottokar, Baron Prochazka, Field Marshal Lieutenant in the Austrian Army, [2] and Leopoldine Henrika Gersch, step-daughter of the late Baron Stuart de Decies, of Dromana, County Waterford. [3] [4] Although born in Prague, she left Bohemia very young and was brought up in Ireland. [5]

She founded the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1870 with a group of six women in Waterford. It was founded initially as the Amateur Drawing Society. Eight years later it was renamed to the "Irish Fine Art Society". [6] [7] [8]

Prochazka was an accomplished and award-winning water-colourist and became manager of the Royal Irish School of Art Needlework in 1886. [9] She ran the school for twelve years. [10]

She was a niece to Sir Charles Wheeler Cuffe [1] and thus related to the illustrator Charlotte, Lady Wheeler-Cuffe. [11] She lived in Lyrath house in County Kilkenny. [1] [12] Her death was announced in the Irish Times of 24 April 1930. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "National census 1911".
  2. ↑ "Revelations of Hungary, or, Leaves from the diary of an Austrian officer".
  3. ↑ "Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, MP for co. Waterford 1873-1874 and 1880-1885". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009.
  4. ↑ Marianne Baumgartner (24 July 2015). Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien: (1885-1938). Böhlau Verlag Wien. pp. 374–. ISBN   978-3-205-79702-9.
  5. 1 2 "Obituary". Kilkenny People. 17 May 1930. p. 7.
  6. ↑ "Water colour society". Library Ireland.
  7. ↑ "A Galaxy of Geniuses". Water Colour Society.
  8. ↑ W. E. Vaughan (1 April 2010). A New History of Ireland: Ireland Under the Union, 1870-1921. Oxford University Press. pp. 449–. ISBN   978-0-19-958374-4.
  9. ↑ Penny Sparke; Fiona Fisher (17 June 2016). The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Routledge. pp. 95–. ISBN   978-1-317-20329-2.
  10. ↑ Ellen Easton McLeod (20 December 1999). In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 54–. ISBN   978-0-88629-356-7.
  11. ↑ "Biographies". Visual Arts Cork.
  12. ↑ "Lyrath house history". Savour Kilkenny.
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